Parents’ Tattoos Mimic Daughters Rare Birthmark
No one likes it when their children are ridiculed or talked about for being different, and one couple decided to go big to make sure their daughter always knew there were others like her.
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Eighteen-month-old Honey-Rae Phillips was born with a birthmark that has grown as she has, and it covers nearly half her right side. Her 40-year-old mother, Tanya Phillips, said the birthmark is a side effect of medical difficulties her daughter experienced after birth.
After Tanya Phillips dressed her daughter in shorts for the first time last summer, she heard an old couple whispering to themselves nearby. Phillips, who has three other children, started covering Honey-Rae’s legs whenever they went out to avoid stares from strangers.
Knowing that if adults could be that insensitive, then kids at school would also be unintentionally mean, she decided she wanted to do something to make sure Honey-Rae never felt different.
Her parents made a decision to get duplicates of Honey-Rae’s birthmark inked on their bodies to remind her that she’ll always have her parents’ support and others that look just like her.
Adam Phillips, Honey-Rae’s dad got the tattoo last Christmas as a present from his wife. And Tanya’s 40th birthday was last week, so Adam gave her the same gift over the weekend.
Honey-Rae’s reaction also made her parents know they did the right thing. When she first seen her mom’s tattoo, she gently touched it and smiled as she said ‘Match,’ pointing to her own leg.
The tattoo is far more extreme than any body art Tanya ever dreamed of getting, but she told The Mirror, a British newspaper, that it was well worth the price of her daughter never feeling different again.
